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lethal

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For those of you lucky enough to have been at the atlas haven I3-TF shared loot, something was completely broken with tt returns there for more than an hour from my knowledge. Along with almost every mob hitting 10x the cost to kill or higher, the warlock boss also dropped 57k ped and 44k ped during this time period. Many players made out multiple thousands of ped profit to the tt while here with over 100 players being there at the peak. So what are your thoughts about this?

Personally I feel that if it was a mistake, then I'm fine with it. However, if this is some stupid way of distributing the recent abyssmal tt returns of many I'll be disgusted at the stupidity of having it so easily missable to so many who have contributed with their losses.
 
lethal said:
For those of you lucky enough to have been at the atlas haven I3-TF shared loot, something was completely broken with tt returns there for more than an hour from my knowledge. Along with almost every mob hitting 10x the cost to kill or higher, the warlock boss also dropped 57k ped and 44k ped during this time period. Many players made out multiple thousands of ped profit to the tt while here with over 100 players being there at the peak. So what are your thoughts about this?

Personally I feel that if it was a mistake, then I'm fine with it. However, if this is some stupid way of distributing the recent abyssmal tt returns of many I'll be disgusted at the stupidity of having it so easily missable to so many who have contributed with their losses.
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Of course I was at the wrong spawn :(
 
Gotta pay the usual ones, they need a bone or they will go elsewhere.
 
Is this true?

Things like this always make me think I could be right about my avatar being bugged.

Let me guess who the close group of expoilters were.. #getthebanhammerout
 
New players don't know we had this on pop dragon a long time ago.

We had period when ammo were not getting used (like 2007-2008) for hours. There will be those kind of bugs from time to time. Nothing to do.
 
It's not the first time this happens, some people probably remember the happy hour many years ago at the proteron spawn west of Fort Troy. Same has happened many times on other planets iirc.

MA even made an announcement about the proteron one, but I can't be bothered to find it.
 
certainly was not a normal global stream during that 'event'... way too many multipliers
 
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Angel O2 Mercer said:
It's not the first time this happens, some people probably remember the happy hour many years ago at the proteron spawn west of Fort Troy. Same has happened many times on other planets iirc.

MA even made an announcement about the proteron one, but I can't be bothered to find it.
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Found it: https://www.entropiauniverse.com/bulletin/buzz/2013/01/30/Entropia-Turns-TEN.xml

Finally, as some of you may have noticed, MindArk has already started celebrating by juicing up the loots, globals and HoFs! No one can be sure when this insanity will end so be sure to grab your share of these ‘Modified Loots’!
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all bugs are now fixed
 
tt hofs/aths dont really mean much its just temporary shift of peds - if some of those who scored it truely are 'up' you will have your own 'happy hour' hunting near them down the road when the system claws back
For most who scored big in those hofs it will only have been a partial payback

Given the choice between a share on an ath or a reliable 5k mu, would always pick the mu.
 
I'm not a big fan... MA shouldn't play around with TT return like this.
 
John B Knight said:
tt hofs/aths dont really mean much its just temporary shift of peds - if some of those who scored it truely are 'up' you will have your own 'happy hour' hunting near them down the road when the system claws back
For most who scored big in those hofs it will only have been a partial payback

Given the choice between a share on an ath or a reliable 5k mu, would always pick the mu.
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He said constant 10x multi on every kill for an hour…. Who cares about a few hof
 
Years ago there was a happy hour on FOMA when you got planet hit rate with FOMA multipliers. Main arena was covered in claims :)
 
yeah lets talk.
 
lethal said:
Personally I feel that if it was a mistake, then I'm fine with it. However, if this is some stupid way of distributing the recent abyssmal tt returns of many I'll be disgusted at the stupidity of having it so easily missable to so many who have contributed with their losses.
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all good, i dont see a problem here, and why? just because i did not saw u complaining when happy hour was for redulite, pyrite on mining

bad timing, life sucks, move on, dont put this into anyone's lap because u could not be there, is quite normal to hide things like this.
 
John B Knight said:
tt hofs/aths dont really mean much its just temporary shift of peds - if some of those who scored it truely are 'up' you will have your own 'happy hour' hunting near them down the road when the system claws back
For most who scored big in those hofs it will only have been a partial payback

Given the choice between a share on an ath or a reliable 5k mu, would always pick the mu.
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I agree with you as far as normal returns and usual loot swings go regarding TT. I also agree that chasing markup is the only reasonable way to play if you want to cover most of your tt loss or try to profit. I really don't believe that this specific instance was something other than a manually loaded loot pool or a bug though.
 
Yazuki said:
What are these bad TT returns that everyone is talking about lately, is that a Calypso specific thing?
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This is a difficult topic because there are some who complain about tt every time their loot falls under expected returns, and some who complain just because they lose, then some who complain no matter what is going on. This makes it hard to identify who is credible in their statements, but from the credible people I've talked to some are as far as 4-5% below expected for both January and February being top 100 hunters, which is right around where I've fallen between crafting ~12,000 clicks a day and hunting in this time period (24 hours of cycling nearly every day.) With this in mind, even if you flip a coin and land tails 50 times in a row, it doesn't mean the next has a higher chance to be heads, so that could be what's going on in these cases. Whether a statistically significant amount of people are actually under right now I can't say for sure though as I'm limited in how many people I've talked to or trackers I've seen. There seem to be more people than normal falling under expected right now though from what I have gathered.
 
Angela Draniie Cloud said:
I had 17 10x multis on feffoid in 25 kills a year and a half ago.
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I think everyone has had an experience somewhat akin to this if they have played for many years and have cycled enough mobs/clicks/drops. This was over the course of over 1,000 mobs though, which is way less likely.
 
lethal said:
I think everyone has had an experience somewhat akin to this if they have played for many years and have cycled enough mobs/clicks/drops. This was over the course of over 1,000 mobs though, which is way less likely.
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Is it though? We've seen it happen during dev spawned events.
 
Jhereg said:
Closer and closer to a rage quit
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I was there and the loot was insane. About 7K ped shrapnel profit in that short time due to increased multipliers.

I should be happy but I am not. Either this was due to a bug or it was intentional. If it was due to a bug shows again high level of incompetence and that the loot system is not to be trusted.

If it was intentional it is even worse due to it being a shameful act which is below even casino standards. A "happy hour" where the dev pull a lever to tamper with loot returns should not exist in a serious RCE enviroment.

Regardless I know that this shrapnel only profit will only result in it even it out with tt returns so it was not any MU profit, for me at least. So in that perspective not many players missed out any long term profit so to speak.
 
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To think they can modify the loot multiplier specifically to a tiny area/mobs whenever they choose seems very scary.

Should never be done in a RCE, if it shall be done it needs to be for every mob and every planet at the same time, for a limited time.
 
Sub-Zero said:
To think they can modify the loot multiplier specifically to a tiny area/mobs whenever they choose seems very scary.

Should never be done in a RCE, if it shall be done it needs to be for every mob and every planet at the same time, for a limited time.
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Whats likelier though, MA decided to give away a bunch of PED by targeting a specific tiny area of mobs for no reason or just that it was a lucky streak?
 
Why Atlas Haven only? I don't get it...

For a Real Cash ECONOMY game this is not good at all. Sounds like someone playing with us players. Meanwhile can't hit a 10k ped on craft even after loss 40k... WTF is going on?
 
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